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The Drive
April 28, 2018
Originally a joint U.S. Air Force and Navy program, the former service decided to stop buying new weapons in 2004, effectively dropping out of the project. ... At present, the Navy is the only U.S. military service to still field this weapon in any form, with the F/A-18C/D Hornet and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet actingÃâà...
AMN Al-Masdar News
April 28, 2018
BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:50 P.M.) – Since the beginning of the Syrian Army's offensive operation in southern Damascus, Islamic State (ISIS) forces have – in line with their typical military doctrine – deployed several vehicle bombs (VBIEDs) against government troops. According to Al-Masdar NewsÃâà...
CNN
April 28, 2018
Mogadishu, Somalia (CNN) At least five people, including three military officials, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday morning at a ... for the bomb attack in a statement posted on pro-rebel websites, saying the bomber had managed to enter the restaurant and killed five Somali armyÃâà...
The New Yorker
April 28, 2018
Hiroshima, Kyoto, and the Bombs of Climate Change ... The Hiroshima Peace Memorial, which commemorates the first use of a nuclear weapon in war. ... Hiroshima has become symbolic shorthand for the nuclear horror that still haunts humanity; when we think about weapons of mass destruction, it's theÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
April 26, 2018
Perhaps the most widely known military defenders of U.S. embassies are Marines. But a small group of Navy Seabees, known as the Naval Security Unit - State Department, has played a largely behind-the-scenes role implementing technical measures to combat threats abroad since the 1960s. The unit'sÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 26, 2018
The bomb killed him instantly. ... Soon, Greiner was invited to join a military training exercise with other robotics companies—the first of its kind. With that .... Purdy, who oversaw joint programs that included not just the Navy but also the Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps, estimated that anti-IED robots savedÃâà...
Pensacola News Journal
April 26, 2018
11, 2001, a memorial wall that pays tribute to fallen military bomb techs will not have the names of anyone killed in Iraq or Afghanistan added during an annual ceremony at Eglin Air Force Base. The May 5 event at the Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal School, which trains bomb techs for all branches ofÃâà...
Atlas Obscura
April 25, 2018
When the military does lose nuclear weapons, it's rare that their location is so mysterious. More often, planes have jettisoned weapons during in-flight emergencies, for the safety of the crew, and the high explosives built into the bombs have gone off. (Conventional explosives set off a bomb's nuclearÃâà...
Good4Utah
April 24, 2018
Police say the concerned citizen said at first they thought the two objects were bowling pins, but as they got closer they realized they were in fact mortars. A mortar is an artillery weapon that fires explosive shells. The shells are known as mortar bombs. Demolition experts from Hill Air Force Bas respondedÃâà...
kfor.com
April 24, 2018
OKLAHOMA CITY - An Oklahoma man accused of attempting to blow up an Oklahoma City bank building was arraigned Monday afternoon on an additional charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Jerry Drake Varnell, 24, of Sayre was arrested last August after he attempted to detonateÃâà...
GamesRadar
April 24, 2018
Last Fortnite Battle Royale Season 3 patch introduces the sticky bomb and finally makes the minigun worth using ... Following last week's patch to the hit, free to play multiplayer game, which included a limited 50v50 mode and the powerful LMG weapon, Epic is closing out Season 3 of Battle Royale with aÃâà...
News & Observer
April 24, 2018
Shells for 1,000-pound explosives, thousands of rounds of ammunition and materials related to chemical warfare are some of the items jettisoned into the ocean off South Carolina coasts by the U.S. military 40 years ago. Today, one South Carolina business group is concerned that Atlantic Ocean oilÃâà...
Business Insider
April 24, 2018
A nuclear weapon detonated below the ocean's surface can cause great devastation. The underwater US nuclear weapons tests of the 1940s and 1950s — including operations "Crossroads Baker" and "Hardtack I Wahoo" — demonstrated why. These underwater fireballs were roughly as energetic as the bombs droppedÃâà...
Voice of America
April 24, 2018
The increased bombing is the latest evidence the 17-year-old war in Afghanistan is significantly intensifying since U.S. President Donald Trump announced his new military strategy for the country in August. Coalition planes dropped 1,186 weapons on Afghanistan during the first three months of 2018,Ãâà...
The Drive
April 24, 2018
The U.S. military, in a way, continues to maintain a similar capability with regards to the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, also known as the Mother of All Bombs or MOAB. The only U.S. Air Force's MC-130 special operations transports are the aircraft able to employ this weapon, which has a totalÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
April 22, 2018
Around 2010, Page started a business called Mamba Guns, which offered people the chance to fire “exotic military weapons from around the world,” including belt-fed machine guns. A video uploaded by Mamba Guns shows customers blasting toilets, televisions and household appliances to bits withÃâà...
Buffalo News
April 22, 2018
Nine miles out at sea when an atomic bomb ignited at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, 19-year-old Frank G. Buzzelli watched as the mushroom cloud swelled above the tiny island's lagoon. He and other sailors aboard the Navy's USS Mount McKinley were given sunglasses and told to turn their backs.
Charleston Post Courier
April 21, 2018
The dumping, carried out from the war years until 1970, took place all around the country after the military deemed the sea the safest place to dispose of it. Queries to the Army about the status of the sites off South Carolina and whether they have been surveyed, were referred to the Navy. As of Friday, theÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 21, 2018
Cluster weapons—those mini-bombs that have cost many a civilian their foot or their life—are back. ... Russia is testing the PBK-500U glide bomb, a 1,000-pound GPS-guided weapon with a range of about fifteen miles. ... There is no denying that from a military perspective, cluster weapons are useful.
Science Daily
April 21, 2018
At left, the key component of a nuclear weapon, called the pit, which consists of a hollow sphere of plutonium, is lined up with a specially made second ... real bombs and nuclear devices -- not just replicas -- have been destroyed, without revealing closely held secrets about the design of those weapons?
Newsweek
April 20, 2018
Investigators from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons were trying to reach Douma to establish what happened but were ... “There were military leadership contacts between generals, between our representatives and the coalition leadership,” Lavrov told state news agency RIA.
HuffPost
April 19, 2018
The two also pushed for Trump to release a memo that is apparently floating around within the administration that lays out a detailed legal justification for taking military action in Syria. The problem with not releasing that memo, they argued, is that it could be used as precedent for the Trump administrationÃâà...
CNN
April 19, 2018
(CNN) A federal jury found three men guilty of conspiring to bomb a Kansas apartment complex to target Somali refugees. ... 49, of Oklahoma, were convicted on one count of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and one count of conspiracy to violate the housing rights of their intended victims.
WatertownDailyTimes.com
April 18, 2018
OGDENSBURG — A local manufacturing company that specializes in protective gear and equipment needed for explosive ordnance disposal has received a $15 million contract to make 305 high-tech “bomb suits” for the U.S. Air Force. The Med-Eng company, located at the Ogdensburg Bridge and PortÃâà...
Popular Mechanics
April 14, 2018
During the 2017 attack—the reason behind the U.S. strike at Shayrat air base— Syrian helicopters dropped Sarin gas in barrel bombs, killing dozens of civilians in Douma. The agent used may have been a cocktail of chlorine and nerve agent as hospital workers reported the smell of chlorine with nerve gasÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 14, 2018
The US, UK and France have launched strikes "on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities" in Syria, US President Donald Trump announced ... A senior Russian military official has said that Syrian air defence had intercepted at least 71 cruise missiles fired by US, UK and France forces.
Common Dreams
April 14, 2018
Loud explosions rocked Syria's capital and filled the sky with heavy smoke early Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced airstrikes in retaliation for the country's alleged use of chemical weapons. Syrian air defenses responded to the joint strikes by the United States, France and Britain.
ExecutiveBiz (blog)
April 14, 2018
The Safariland Group's Med-Eng business has secured a potential five-year, $15 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide equipment designed to help protect the lives of explosive ordnance disposal personnel. USAF chose the Med-Eng EOD 10 offering after the brand met a National Institute ofÃâà...
Youngstown Vindicator
April 14, 2018
It was not immediately clear whether Trump meant the allied military operation would extend beyond an initial nighttime round of missile strikes. ... that the U.S., France and Britain together launched military strikes in Syria to punish President Bashar Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons againstÃâà...
CNBC
April 14, 2018
These barrel bombs were likely used in the chemical attack. Reliable intelligence also indicates that Syrian military officials coordinated what appears to be the use of chlorine in Duma on April 7. Following these barrel bomb attacks, doctors and aid organizations on the ground in Duma reported the strongÃâà...
New York Times
April 14, 2018
WASHINGTON — The United States and European allies launched airstrikes on Friday night against Syrian research, storage and military targets as President ... Mr. Trump characterized it as the beginning of a sustained effort to force Mr. Assad to stop using banned weapons, but only ordered a limited,Ãâà...
The Sun
April 14, 2018
Four Tornado jets were deployed at 1am from RAF Akrotiri, which is the air force base in Cyprus. Tornado's are the UK's main ground-attack aircraft and were each armed with Storm Shadow missiles. The air-launched weapons weigh 900lbs each and can travel as far as 250 miles. They fired StormÃâà...
BBC News
April 14, 2018
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said that four RAF Tornado jets were deployed to launch Storm Shadow cruise missiles at a Syrian military facility. ... Syrian regime to "keep chemical weapon precursors stockpiled in breach of Syria's obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention," the MoD said in aÃâà...
Magnoliareporter
April 12, 2018
Bombs with an upgraded explosive, and tested at Aerojet Rocketdyne's Camden facility, were evaluated recently by personnel of the U.S. Air Force Research ... Testing was conducted by AFRL at Eglin Air Force Base, FL, and the data was presented to the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy Insensitive MunitionsÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
April 12, 2018
After Israeli tanks spent the day on Wednesday firing artillery shells at numerous sites in northern and eastern Gaza, the Israeli military stepped up its assault on the coastal enclave Wednesday night with bombs dropped by the Israeli airforce which killed one Palestinian and injured another. The PalestinianÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 10, 2018
Two injured as fighter jet accidentally drops bomb on French town The accident took place at around 3.30pm today, after an army fighter jet lost a replica bomb while it ... Colonel Olivier Celo, a spokesman for the Air Force told France Bleu: “Inert munition simulates weapons that we use in real conditions.
HuffPost
April 10, 2018
Fox News Guest Personally Asks Donald Trump To Bomb Syrian Air Force During Segment ... Specifically, Rifai wants Trump to bomb the Middle Eastern country's air force in retaliation for the reported chemical attack that killed dozens of ... “What we need to do right now is to take out Assad's air force.
New York Times
April 10, 2018
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israel on Monday appeared to have escalated its shadow war in Syria against Iran, with a predawn airstrike against a military base that ... It followed a vow by President Trump to respond to an apparent chemical weapons attack by the Syrian government near Damascus on Saturday.
ReliefWeb
April 4, 2018
These alarming statistics are directly linked to the massive use of explosive weapons in populated areas in recent conflicts (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, etc.), including prohibited weapons such as anti-personnel mines and cluster bombs. When used in populated areas, civilians make up 90% of victims of theseÃâà...
Brunswick News
April 4, 2018
He had two brothers serve during World War II and another in Korea, so he felt obligated to serve in the military. He joined the Air Force with plans to be a pilot, but failed the vision test, even though his vision was good enough to fly commercial airlines. Instead, he went to navigation bombardier school for aÃâà...
BGR
April 4, 2018
Nuclear weapons are commonplace, at least insofar as lots of countries have access to them but never actually use them, but tensions between ... of the blast and choose one of four bombs ranging from the original “Little Boy” nuke to Russia's Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 4, 2018
Although Israel doesn't officially acknowledge it, it is well understood that the country possesses a nuclear weapon arsenal (although the exact ... funds for the nuclear project he invite opposition from the military, which was struggling to field a conventional army that could defeat Israel's Arab enemies.
Birmingham Live
April 4, 2018
The army was called out after another unexploded bomb from World War Two was found in Birmingham. The hand grenade was at a house in Northfield on Tuesday morning. Workmen carrying out a clearance at the address in South Road made the shock find at 11.45am.
Albuquerque Journal
April 3, 2018
Los Alamos Historical Society Executive Director Heather McClenahan said that, contrary to a Saturday report in the English-language Japan Times newspaper, her museum in the town where nuclear weapons were first developed never had official plans to host the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic BombÃâà...
San Francisco Chronicle
April 3, 2018
A museum in a once-secret New Mexico city that developed the atomic bomb has put an exhibit from Japan on hold because its theme of abolishing nuclear weapons. The Los Alamos Historical Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico, recently announced it won't be hosting a traveling exhibit organized by theÃâà...
Anadolu Agency
April 3, 2018
Afghan air force bombed a religious seminary in northern Kunduz province on Monday, killing scores of suspected militants and civilians, according to ... Ashna Radio, a local media outlet, however disputed the army claim and quoted locals as saying that over 100 civilians had been killed in the aerial raidÃâà...
AirForceTimes.com
April 3, 2018
Col. Leland Bohannon, then-vice commander of the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., inspects an inert BDU-50 inside a B-52H Stratofortress in 2015. Bohannon was relieved of command of the Air Force Inspection Agency at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, in 2017. (Air Force).
The Knife Media
April 3, 2018
On Monday, Afghan military aircraft bombed a religious school in Dashti Archi in the Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan. At least 70 people were killed, according to Al Jazeera. Reports of fatalities differed among sources. Afghan Ministry of Defense spokesman Mohammad Radmanish said theÃâà...
ABC News
April 3, 2018
A museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico — a once-secret New Mexico city that developed the atomic bomb which help end World War II — has put an exhibit from Japan on hold because of its theme of abolishing nuclear weapons. The Los Alamos Historical Museum confirmed Monday that it will not host aÃâà...
Miami Herald (blog)
April 2, 2018
The word was that Saddam was making chemical and biological weapons, which are a clear violation of international rules, because they kill people. ... was threatening to send Air Force planes over there to drop MORE bombs (which are allowed under international rules, although they also kill people, butÃâà...
